Cleaner steals train and crashes into apartment block

Swedish officials say a cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a train
depot and drove it to a suburb of Stockholm where it derailed and slammed
into an apartment building.

1:54PM GMT 15 Jan 2013

The woman was seriously injured in the crash in the early hours of Tuesday and was flown to a Stockholm hospital, a police spokesman said. No one else was injured.

The police spokesman said the woman was arrested on suspicion of endangering the public.

A spokesman for train operator Arriva, said the woman, born in 1990, stole the four-car train at a depot outside Stockholm.

She then drove it about a mile to the end station on the railway line, where it jumped off the tracks, careened for about 30 yards and crashed into a three-story building, crumpling the front car of the train and bury it deep into the building's structure.